raiding the piggy bank delays a decision on whether to impose an e.u. and i.m.f. plan to plunder the nation's bank accounts. russia slams the proposal as unfair and dangerous with some experts saying if the time is brought saying they have to rethink its help for ailing euro. plus state of denial the u.s. military maintains there's no mass hunger strike at one town in my bay more than one hundred detainees are reportedly starving themselves in a protest of mistreatment. no war or peace we also what washington and its allies have left behind in iraq as more deadly bombings strike the nation at the ten year anniversary of the u.s. led invasion.

welcome along the two r.t. coming to life in the heart of moscow eighty six pm in the russian capital the parliament in cyprus has delayed until tuesday a decision on whether to allow an e.u. bailout which will cost its citizens millions of. every bank customer will have their cash taxed if it goes through the plan of course panic over the weekend with people emptying a.t.m. machines fearing their life savings could be plundered correspondent reports on the implications. the e.u. finance ministers as the and the international monetary fund had agreed upon a ten billion euro bailout for the country on the condition that this bank tax a bank deposit tax be imposed now this could amount to up to nine point nine percent of of those who have more than one hundred thousand euros in the back and for many people their it's their entire life savings that they have that are they feel are now in trouble and the panic that has been stirred over the weekend people

trying to get money out of the cash machines but electronic transfers have been stopped and the machines have been running out of money and people there are calling this essentially unfair unjust and simply robbery their their savings being taken away from them the president of the country however have has been painting this acceptance of the bailout as crucial for the country says that if. this requirement is not passed then the country will might be forced to get out of the euro of the euro zone area and therefore some people feel that the country has really been put in a position where it has no choice but to accept everything that has be handed down by brussels by e.u. leaders by the meetings that they have here as far as the people are concerned again they really see this as as an infringement for what is supposed to be there and this is unprecedented in the sense that this is the first time that a requirement for a bailout is actually actually means dipping into the personal savings of citizens

that this is the first time it has happened officials here say that this is not going to be a precedent that is not going to be a trend to whatever already there is doubt among the e.u. citizens to whether or not this line the red line that they thought would never be cross has actually already been crossed and if we look again at what may be the biggest factor in disrupting the very fabric of the european union is this kind of social dissatisfaction kind of a protest from the people where there are where they are not happy with the kind of decisions that their leaders are making as a directly impacts the very quality of their lives. well the aftershocks of the proposition have been felt in other countries both inside and outside the eurozone artie's tom barton has the details. professional and dangerous with the words that putin used through his spokesman about this tax on deposits in cyprus that would be necessary for that ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f.

loan russian banks russian businessmen and exceptionally rich russian individuals hold a disproportionately huge deposits in cyprus given the country's size the exact number of billions is estimated to be above ten but the exact number could be far higher it's very hard to establish it's partly because of that reason that the e.u. wanted a tax to try and distribute the burden equally and to avoid money laundering there are reports in the greek media that the russian state energy giant gazprom proposed its own bailout to cyprus in return for energy exploration rights around the island but it was turned down because cyprus wanted to solution from within the e.u. all of this does raise questions about the future of russian deposits in cyprus about whether this tax will hurt more investors all the banks that hold their

deposits if those deposits are withdrawn it also raises questions over a two point five billion euro loan given by russia to cyprus which may itself not be extended well global markets unless patrick young says that the use proposition to encroach on the personal as well as foreign bank deposits deeply in dangers the entire banking system. the eurozone and the european union have looked at the overall cyprus situation and said a huge swathe of deposits here come from people outside the european union and whether they've done it entirely cynically or whether they've done it entirely consciously we can never be absolutely clear but there certainly looks to me to be a lot of politics behind this move essentially the euro zone the european union have said who can we manage to take a haircut from that are actually not our citizens not our voters or not our beleaguered banks who are largely incompetent that also is a terrible precedent to set because ultimately any biking system is reliant upon

foreign deposits and all foreigners whether they're russian corporates russian oligarchs or whoever they are it matters not one iota because the whole point is the front today on people will be aware that there is a precedent for burning investors who want to hold the euro. well we're also closely following the tensions in cyprus on our website at r.t. dot com that is where we were asking you what you think will come of the controversial deposit levy and let's see how your voting so far how the votes of come in the majority believes forcing savers to pay for the banks mistakes will only cool social unrest thirty two percent expect a chain reaction of bank runs leading to the collapse of the e.u. less of you blame the flawed euro zone system saying the cash will only offer a short term solution and this hour the minority has faith in the debate a tax to bring stability to the island state altie dot com is where you can tell us what you think. despite mounting media coverage and

legal appeals the u.s. military continues to deny a mass hunger strike is underway at guantanamo bay lawyers for more than one hundred detainees say they've been starving themselves for over forty days in protest of the desecration of the koran by prison guards when grilled by r.t. kuantan a most spokesman defended the facilities policy captain robert durand says get my always committed to the safe legal humane and transparent treatment of detainees here earlier claimed only fourteen captives are refusing all food with some of those being force fed to prevent starvation now despite pledging to shut down guantanamo juror in his first presidential campaign in two thousand and eight barack obama has now dropped the issue from the top of his agenda but this has drawn little liar in the u.s. where the mainstream media prefers to keep get more out of the headlines and the war on terror is still marketed as

a good enough reason to keep the count running artie's eagle piskun of recaps the failed attempts to bring guantanamo to an end. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he brahmas to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the facility to be closed within a year and banned certain into regression methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees but in me the same year the u.s. senate refused to fund the closure until the president provided more detail as to what he would do with the prisoners in mid october appear the situation changed as congress allowed some detainees to be moved to the united states for prosecution but at the end of two thousand and ten congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented u.s. based trials for guantanamo detainees and in january two thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the resume bill which ruled out shutting one tunnel b.

down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december of two thousand and eleven the president fails to veto the national defense bill believing the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july last year the pentagon announced its plans to forty million dollars fiber optic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center earlier we spoke to former guantanamo bay guard brandon ailie who admits he took part in the abuse of detainees the army veteran says the u.s. has only created more terrorists through its actions. facility is a lot better but speed guards of been there over the last few years are the dream

inside as far as the internal reaction force team and the way the crown is treated in a stuff like that not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but the inside hasn't changed too much are people forget that half these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and they're going to be into definitely healthier who was along they don't know when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think the fact that they don't know what's going to happen it you know is it makes them gross and this is their only what form of protest they had to go on hunger strike and the fact is that when whoever open a campaign started open guantanamo knew from the get go and that it was wrong that it was was illegally i mean it was a violation of human rights and the fact is it has to be closed the fact is they'll never bring him into a federal court system because a lot of information they have gotten as mindy to you had to have gotten out of the use of torture so they can it's on a missile in federal court system well we dropped the ball we have a system here we have the opportunity to show the world that arse still and our way of life actually works but we dropped the ball in newnan and we've created more

terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine. stay with in-depth coverage of the alleged mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay we got all the details the mainstream media might be missing on this more opinion and analysis of the story on our web site that's dot com still ahead for you this hour europe's last dictator on sunset i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in paris. he speaks exclusively to the president of battery so he dismisses western criticism saying he's devoted to democratic values as the next person based on much more after this break.

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welcome back to r.t. coming to you live from moscow. iraq is about to mark ten years since the u.s. led invasion with thirty deaths from bomb attacks last week in baghdad and ten more on sunday in the south in two thousand and three washington unleashed its shock and or air strikes i mean to rid the country of suspected weapons of mass destruction on top also down hussein a decade later arguments persist over whether anything was really achieved he's gone she can investigates. there's no greater cost to the war then shattered human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there

is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states when you're here less than one percent of people participated in or so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it says though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction the most recent study puts the total cost of the war at two trillion dollars for the u.s. the authors of the report say the country will continue to pay and over the next four decades that cost could reach six trillion dollars but on top of the human loss and dollars spent there's also been a political price to pay for american credibility and influence went down well

arounds went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later so law of unintended consequences are you know polar moment ended when we went into baghdad but we didn't know it from the berlin wall to that time we destroyed the earth like a grand colossus and after that it's all been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says iraq has changed the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and then what do we do we mount a war of aggression on iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result. what we did in the right world looks at them and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely in

a leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedgerow today many of those who cheered for the iraq war on t.v. shows and then their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states were the united states of amnesia as gore would also actually said the tendency to forget and to move on could prove dangerous with new war talk brewing in washington with many of the same people who pushed for the iraq war answer now pushing to drag america into another conflict in the middle east a number of the insiders from the bush administration have come out and said the desire to topple directly government trumped all other considerations at the time of the invasion there was no credible intelligence that saddam had weapons of mass destruction or ties with al qaida and yet the administration wanted to invade at

all costs what we see from these policy makers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm going to check out. now news junkies can always head to our web site for a lot smaller stories including iran's launching a new domestically built missile destroyer got interest in the caspian sea marking its first heavyweight presence in the oil rich region also. venezuela's acting president nicolas maduro says the cia on the pentagon want to kill his upcoming election rival pin the blame on him that much more on the website. looking for it's a place in the sun on wanting to live as a normal civilized european state that the goals president alexander lukashenko has . for the future of belarus as he told r.t. in an exclusive interview dubbed as europe's last dictator shankar freely admits he

won't give up power like a would deny speculation his youngest son will succeed him as president the president of the former soviet republic has been repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights and oppressing the opposition. has hit back saying its democracy is just as good as that found in europe or the us. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need to understand that do i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point

five billion people we know that in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military population and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves solving major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you're very lucky to meet europe's last dictator alive in person remember it is that something you probably won't see again. in other news this hour there's been a suicide attack on i call complex in the western pakistan a city of peshawar to bomb as attempted an assault on the compound was shot or the second managed to detonate his explosives at least three people were killed and

many more injured a group has claimed responsibility is on the edge of pakistan's volatile tribal region. in somalia's capital a car bomb reportedly targeting senior government officials is that at least ten civilians dead the vehicle exploded as it passed by the presidential palace. as you know i tell you original mogadishu security has been tight ever since a two thousand and eleven military offensive ousted is the next rebels from the city or the bombings are still common. the new israeli government is being sworn in following weeks of horse trading prime minister benjamin netanyahu the likud alliance teamed up with three other parties to form a cabinet then you know he was forced to turn his back on traditional culture all the docs allies and they now find themselves in opposition for the first time in a decade or there is already some speculation that the coalition is delicate at best one group with

a vested interest in the direction of the new government of the inhabitants of a ruled better when village choose homes have been bulldozed forty seven times by the authorities looks at the david and goliath style struggle there's not much but what there is within now was destroyed. part of an israeli plan to with the naked does it often spit when residents. if they've been demolished have a thousand times i will rebuild the numbers on my life i will keep struggling i will not give up. well living in fear over time whenever somebody calls us and says they're bulldozers in the main street we take all our stuff outside the tent and take it to the cemetery and now they're threatening to demolish the cemetery. village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first

demolition more than three years ago and since then most families have relocated to neighboring towns but woman we're not afraid we're waiting for them to come again. a steadfast few who live near the threat and symmetry wait to rebuild their homes after the bulldozers leave there is a lighter side to the story residents here have asked the guinness book of world records to enter them as the village that has been demolished the most times in history forty seven and counting. nearly half of the big one population of the negative around ninety thousand people live in forty five villages and recognized by the israeli government they don't appear on any map and have no official signs marking their existence when they're not being torn down they're being torn apart through the government's refusal to provide sewage systems roads electricity water schools or hospitals but television says it's ready to change that if the bedouins move to recognize villages it promises to provide them with basic services and

compensation. they are living on alarms that belong to the state israel is a country of law and institutions and when you claim land belongs to you should be able to prove it through legal papers the better ones don't have these papers so it's very hard to accept their claims. but shake saya alto he disagrees he says his ancestors are buried in a cemetery where graves state back at least one hundred years. we have papers from the in one thousand and five we paid taxes for this land from the year one thousand twenty one until nine hundred forty seven we have papers from the british in nineteen twenty nine and we even have papers from the year of nine hundred seventy three signed by israel itself all these papers prove that the land belongs to us. these weighty government is expected soon to pass a bill that will see more than twenty and recognized big win villages destroyed and some fifty thousand bedouins displaced about two thirds of the land is threatened

with confiscation the government is trying to organize their vigilance against their will in the bedouins prefer to live in agricultural villages to brazil or more a way of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note policy r t r keep village in the negev desert. while the coalition deal to form israel's new cabinet was hammered out just days before the upcoming visit of u.s. president barack obama many are expecting some hard talk on the palestinian issue however peter lavelle's guests argue whether it will even be on the agenda the full shows coming up in just over an hour the purpose of the visit is simply to visit and to check that box and to be able to demonstrate that he's been to israel and to get out of the way at the beginning of his term and it doesn't certainly as as you

yourself mentioned the so-called peace process is not on the agenda he's not bringing any new initiative with him so there's no need to revive the so-called peace process it's never been a peace process it's been an annexation process and right now there are no restraints no constraints no inhibitions israel's pursuit of its continued and acceleration of the occupied palestinian territories. cross-talk coming up a little later but after a break it's richard done poorly with a week sporting headlines. and the mission in free couldn't take should be free transport charges free. range

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economy in the kinds of reports on our. hello and welcome to the anti sports show with me richard i'm paul fleets all over the next thirty minutes we'll bring you all the news from russia and abroad but it starts with the headlines. in our piece seven point lead at the top of the russian the premier league second place angie drop points and their first man should be a new stadium. california dreaming maria sharapova rushes caroline wozniacki to claim her first title of the year the indian wells open and returns to number two in the world. and who hundred syrians can moscow pick up their third straight win in the top sixteen of expensive old photos are. inching closer to the euro

league quarterfinals. look sad for their first premier league title in seven years has been moved to seven points clear of the top of the table following a one a nail victory against krasnodar where all the action from week twenty one here is constantly but top of. the only. legally there is to this guy had a narrow one zero win over a cross on the r. at the luzhniki stadium russian midfield ellen's i'm sure of getting the only goal of the game up to seventeen minutes which was the twenty second year old for for the season and says to stay with the back increasing their cushion at the top of the table to seven points from one gee thanks i use heating side lost in the last seconds of their europa league tie with newcastle on thursday but it looked as they would get back to winning ways in the first game in their new

stadium against willis a either however said a good man could give the team from some are a shock to leave just after they are one more but the expanse only assembled on team managed to restore parity ten minutes from time last year but are restoring from close range i think i need to europa league conditions also came to an abrupt told last week however they kept their hopes of gaining a champions league place a life with a one nil victory against the old resilin called get the winner it's already there was somebody the be. spartak moscow dominated encounter with city rivals will come on t.v. however the read on words failed to convert their numerous chances as they had to settle for a goalless draw the slogan really stink on take the best out of his team but look at what he has goalkeeper brazilian gilliatt american made sure the deadlock wasn't broken with a number of fine saves.